Vol. 34 No. 18 | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 | 16 Pages | ` 5 Reg. No. MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 46955/1988 M.p.c.s. office Mumbai-400001 EDITIONS: MUMBAI*, Pune, Nashik, Konkan, Indore, Bhopal, E-paper My first guru Ahead of Teachers’ Day, we feature individuals who were lucky to have parents as their first teachers THE FP BULLETIN Teesta walks free after SC relief A ctivist Teesta Setalvad on Saturday walked out of jail, a day after the Supreme Court granted her interim relief in a case of allegedly fabricating evidence to destabilise the Gujarat government after the 2002 riots. As per the Supreme Court’s order, she was produced before sessions judge VA Rana for bail formalities. The sessions court asked her to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 and not to leave India without its permission. NATION Cong trio says Irani misled court R eplying to the defamation suit filed last month by Union Minister Smriti Irani, Congress leaders Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta D’Souza told the Delhi High Court in a joint affidavit that they had a duty to raise questions of public importance regardless of the office held by an individual and that the minister had misled the court by suppressing her and her family’s statements about the bar in Goa. NATION Racial abuse of Indian in Poland A n Indian man was racially abused in Poland by an American tourist, who called him a “parasite”, and “an invader”. It is unclear in which city the video, which has gone viral, was shot but Twitter users have been tagging Warsaw police. The American can be heard repeatedly asking the Indian why he was in Europe. “In America... there’s too many of you guys. So why are you in Poland? Why don’t you return to your own country?” Fashion of the future Customisation and lifestyle choices will play a huge role in shaping the course of the industry Premises of Razorpay, Paytm, Cashfree raided in Bengaluru � `17-cr funds kept in merchant IDs and bank accounts seized FPJ BUREAUS BENGALURU/MUMBAI Clamping down on Chinese instant loan apps known for their dubious extortion tactics, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday raided the Bengaluru premises of online pay, ment gateways like Razorpay Paytm and Cashfree. In the searches that started , on Friday the agency also seized Rs 17-crore worth funds kept in “merchant IDs and bank accounts through which these entities were running their illegal business”. Razorpay and Cashfree responded CHINESE LOAN APPS � Case based on at least 18 FIRs filed � FIRs related to extortion and saying they were cooperating with the ED, while Paytm declined to comment. These payment gateway firms have been in the crosshairs of the ED action FPJ BUSINESS BUREAU MUMBAI digital lending applications (DLAs) and related complaints. The RBI’s instrucExpediting preventive action tions are based on the guideagainst increasing frauds lines suggested by a working and customer grievances re- group on ‘digital lending’ lated to digital lending, in- constituted in January 2021. cluding lending through on- This working group had released detailed line platforms to mobile Gives directions to guidelines and this effect on Auapps, the Reprevent digital gust 10. serve Bank of lending frauds; In addition to India has issued instructions to banks, NBFCs must the appointment of nodal officers, all banks and ensure dedicated RBI also insists non-banking institutions. grievance nodal that the details of the grievance The central officers redressal officer bank’s circular shall be promiSaturday on strongly advised all regis- nently indicated on the webtered entities (REs), includ- site of the RE, its LSPs and on ing commercial banks, coop- DLAs, as applicable. The erative banks and non-bank- RBI’s instructions are appliing financial companies, and cable to the ‘existing cusservice tomers availing fresh loans’ lending their providers (LSPs) to appoint and to ‘new customers’ from nodal grievance redressal of- the date of the circular. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE ficer to deal with FinTech/ since 2020 soon after the Covid19 pandemic struck. , As per the agency the case is based on at least 18 FIRs filed by the Bengaluru police cybercrime station against “numer- SANJAY JOG & LAW KUMAR MISHRA MUMBAI / PATNA Days after announcing that he is not in the running for any office given his age, NCP chief Sharad Pawar, 82, will meet Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar in the national capital on Sep 8. This will be the first meeting between the two senior opposition figures after Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal (United) ended its alliance with the BJP in Bihar and formed a government with the Lalu Prasad-led Rashtriya Janata Dal. Amid a growing buzz within the party about Bihar’s longest-serving Chief Minister seeking a national role now as the opposition’s prime ministerial face, Nitish Kumar is set to visit New Delhi next week to set in motion his plan to bring THE FINAL FAREWELL pilot, who was circling a stolen airplane for hours over Tupelo, a city in the state of Mississippi in the US, and threatened to intentionally crash it into a Walmart store has been taken into custody after he landed the aircraft safely, Governor Tate Reeves said on Saturday. Mississippi Governor Reeves announced on Twitter that the “situation has been resolved and that no one was injured”. WORLD the non-BJP parties together. At the JD-U’s two-day national executive meeting at the Karpoori Thakur Bhawan in Patna which started on Saturday, Nitish Kumar said he would meet top opposition leaders, including interim Chief Minister Eknath Shinde wants Governor BS Koshyari to cancel the Maha Vikas Aghadi’s (MVA) legislative council list and consider a fresh list from his government. In a letter sent to the Governor, the CM said the “12 names proposed by his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray for the nomination of vacated Mem- Mourners attend a memorial service for Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union, –AFP at the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow on Saturday. 14-year-old knifed to death in Waliv: 2 held from Gujarat The Waliv police have arrested two men suspected of killing 14-year old Andheri resident Vanshika Rathod last week. Vanshika’s body was found with 14-15 knife injuries from a jungle at Waliv in Naigaon a day after she went missing on August 25. The police had booked the accused – Khar resident San- tosh Makwana and Juhu resident Vishal Anbhawa – after CCTV footage from various railway stations showed them carrying the same bag that was found in the jungle. However, the two had been missing since the day Vanshika went missing. Vanshika’s mother had said that she had found Makwana stalking her daughter and had reported him to the police. However, she had tak- en the charges back after he had apologised. In the past few days, CCTV footage from scores of spots led the Waliv police team to Gujarat, where police teams assisted them, said senior police inspector Kailas Barve. He added that they had also released the photographs of the accused across police stations. The police also used human intelligence to track the two absconding men. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, during his stay in the national capital. The Chief Minister has been exuding confidence that a united opposition could prevent the BJP from returning to power for a third successive term in the general election due in 2024. At his meeting with Pawar, the veterans are expected to discuss the country’s political scenario and the various options to bring like-minded opposition parties together . against the BJP Nitish Kumar has often deflected questions about his national ambitions. After taking the oath of office in Bihar at the head of a mahagathbandhan government, he even said he did not aspire to be the prime ministerial candidate of the Opposition in 2024. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Nora grilled for 6 hrs by Delhi cops Questioning in extortion case linked to jailed conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar FPJ BUREAU NEW DELHI Actor Nora Fatehi was questioned by the Delhi police’s Economic Offences Wing (EOW) for over six hours on Saturday in the Rs 200-crore extortion case linked incarcerated to conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar. Chandrashekar is accused of cheating various people, including some high-profile individuals such as former Fortis Healthcare promoter Shivinder Mohan Singh’s wife Aditi Singh. The Enforcement Directorate (ED) had earlier questioned Chandrashekhar and Fatehi together on the suspi- Kin of road mishap victim get `80L relief BHAVNA UCHIL MUMBAI A Motor Accident Claims Tribunal has ordered over Rs 80 lakh in compensation to the family of a 26-year-old who died in a freak accident on April 30, 2018. Rashid’s Mohammed Maruti Omni stopped on the Mumbai-Pune expressway due to a mechanical problem at around 5 am on the day of the accident. To make the vehicle start, he and his four friends were pushing it when a tempo hit them from behind near Devad village in Khandeshwar. All five men had died, but apparently only Rashid’s family approached the tribunal. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE With a fresh list, the Shinde-Fadnavis govt is aiming for the upper house chairman’s post bers of the Legislative Council (MLC) stand withdrawn”. Observers said a fresh list by the ruling alliance will increase its strength in the upper house, paving way for the election of the chairman. Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis recently said he has received 686 letters with a plea to nominate them to the state council. Even the Bungalow, spl security for Sri Lanka’s ex-Prez AGENCIES COLOMBO Sri Lanka’s ousted President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been given special security and a state bungalow on his return from Thailand, where he fled amid months-long mass protests over the country’s worst economic crisis. Rajapaksa, 73, was accorded a warm welcome as he returned to Colombo amid tight . security late on Friday He was festooned with flowers by a welcoming party of ministers and politicians as he disembarked at the BanInternational daranaike Airport from Bangkok via Singapore. In Thailand, Rajapaksa was advised to remain inside his hotel for security reasons, the Daily Mirror newspaper said. With his movements restricted, he decided to return to Sri Lanka and will remain in the country till his application for the USA Green Card is approved by the American government, the newspaper said. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Go, Serena! Fan Tomljanovic ends Williams’s swansong Trust Serena Williams to not want to go quietly to not want this match, , this trip to the US Open, this transcendent career of hers, to truly end. Right down to the final minutes of her quarter-century of excellence on the tennis court, with an unbending unwillingness to be told what wasn’t possible, Williams tried to mount a final comeback, earn one last vintage victory with , fans on their feet in a packed Arthur Ashe Stadium, cell-phone cameras at the ready . The 23-time Grand Slam champion staved off five match points to prolong the three-hours-plus proceedings, but could do no more, and was eliminated in the third round by Australian Ajla Tomljanovic 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1 on Friday night in what is believed to be her final competitive game. “It’s been the most incredible ride and journey I’ve ever been on in my life," Williams said, tears streaming down her cheeks shortly after her final shot landed in the net. “I’m so grateful to every single person that’s ever said ‘Go, Serena!' in their life." Williams turns 41 this month and recently told the world she was ready to start “evolving” away from her playing days — she expressed distaste for the word ‘retirement’ — and while she remained purposely vague about whether this appearance at Flushing Meadows would represent her last hurrah, everyone has assumed it does. Asked in an on-court interview whether she might reconsider walking away Williams replied: “I don’t , think so, but you never know." With two victories in singles this week, including over world No 2 Anett Kontaveit on Wednesday , CM has received a large number of requests from his supporters. The former MVA government had recommended 12 names in November 2020 after authorisation from the state cabinet. The names were subsequently sent to Koshyari for nomination, following which the MVA had sent him repeated reminders. Even the Bombay High Court had made serious observations about inaction on the list by the Governor. Forced ATC clearance: MP flies off the handle LAW KUMAR MISHRA PATNA LAST WORD ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK CITY cion of money laundering. This inquiry is also part of the ED’s chargesheet in the money trail of the extortion case, in which actor Jacqueline Fernandez is also named as an accused. As per the ED, both and Fernandez received Fatehi luxury cars and gifts expensive Chanfrom Nodrashekhar. , tably Fernandez had publicly asked why she alone is being questioned when even other actors received expensive gifts. In his statement, Chandrashekhar had earlier alleged that four designer luxury bags gifted to Fatehi were chosen by her staff at a Mumbai mall. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE CM asks Guv to cancel Uddhav’s MLC list SANJAY JOG MUMBAI SHERINE RAJ MUMBAI ous entities/ persons in connection with their involvement in extortion and harassment of the public who had availed small loans”. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE Pawar-Nitish meet fuels talk of Opposition unity A A � ED had initiated a probe under the criminal sections of the PMLA harassment of people availing small loans through apps Cook held over Dalit remarks Pilot threatens to hit Walmart store � ED says addresses of the entities on the MCA website are fake by the Bengaluru police cyber crime station ASA once again postponed Artemis I moon rocket mission on Saturday after an issue was found related to a leak in the hardware transferring fuel into the rocket. The US space agency was slated to launch the mission on Saturday after its earlier attempt failed due to a problem in one of its engines. I involved using forged documents of Indians and making them dummy directors the ED action since 2020 N ndia has overtaken the UK to become the world’s fifth-largest economy and is now behind only the US, China, Japan and Germany, as per IMF projections. A decade back, India was ranked 11th among the large economies while the UK was fifth. With record beating expansion in the April-June quarter, the Indian economy has now overtaken the UK, which has slipped to the sixth spot. � Modus operandi of Chinese entities � Payment gateways in the crosshairs of RBI issues new digi lending guidelines NASA pushes Artemis mission India ahead of UK, 5th largest economy Sexy @60 Noose tightens on pay gateways WORLD cook was arrested on Saturday for allegedly discriminating against two Dalit girls in a government school in Udaipur. The girls had reportedly served a midday meal cooked by Lala Ram Gurjar to which he objected and asked the students to throw it away. After the girls complained, their families reached the school and demanded action. A case was later registered under the Prevention of Atrocities Act. NATION This is what Mickey Mehta believes himself to be and wants others to believe too Williams took her fans, Tomljanovic among them, on a thrill-a-minute throwback trip at the hard-court tournament that was the site of half-a-dozen of her championships. The first came in 1999, when Williams was just 17. Now she is married and a mother; her daughter, Olympia, turned 5 on Thursday . But even with 23,859 cheering raucously again on Friday, Williams faltered against the 29year-old Australian who is ranked 46th. She gave away leads in each set, including the last, in which she was up 1-0 before dropping the final CONTD. ON NATION PAGE six games. The Deoghar police in Jharkhand have registered a First Information Report (FIR) against three BJP MPs and six others for allegedly entering the Air Traffic Control (ATC) room at the airport without permission and forcibly extracting a clearance for their chartered flight to New Delhi. The police said the airport is not allowed night take-off or landing. Those named in the FIR in, clude MP Nishikant Dubey his two sons Kanishk Kant and 3 BJP MPs booked in Deoghar; deputy commissioner alleges abuse of position Mahikant, MP Manoj Tiwari and Deoghar airport director. In retaliation, Nishikant Dubey filed an FIR against Deputy Commissioner of Deoghar, Manjunath Bhajantri, for unauthorised entry to the airport and viewing CCTV footage. He urged the Superintendent of Police to initiate police action. Later on Saturday, twitter witnessed a war of words with Dubey asking Bhajantri to not to work as agent of Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren. He even advised him to follow the high standards of Indian Administrative Service. CONTD. ON NATION PAGE